munyul wrote:@catpaw,
"You started with this bull**** not me"
Chinese Proverb: He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
And the one who needs to argue with chinese proverbs has not a normal logic to apply to.
As for your comment:
"If he writes with it 'hey, this is my new map, please test it, i want your feedback' one could conclude he wants you to test it on your local server only, and not run a public server.", really, if someone posts on a public forum, "please 'test' my map", this automatically implies public access to test the map!
If someone posts it publicly the only thing you can really conclude of, is he goes okay for you to download it from his source. Everything else is just an assumption.
Your logic that it is 100% public, therefore I have the right to edit and re-release it is not very sound - but that is not what I am trying to convey in this discussion.
My logic is, when everyone has the right to edit and re-release data, we will have a far more creative community. We can have different versions of maps, and chose as community which one is better. As editor i can freely reassemble existing data to create new communities without sending out messages all the time. This forum does not even support private messages, so often enough I cannot even contact the original author.
I detest the need of people to control things. When you release something you should consider having given to the community, and look what they make of it. The urge of excerting control forever on who may and may not edit, who may and may not use your map, etc.
What I am trying to get across is; it used to be considered good manners to first ask the original author if it would be ok to edit his/her map.
As Dreamy already stated, the Teeworlds community is young and needs to find it's own legs, to which I totally agree. What I do not agree with is the combined attitudes of; "I am free to do whatever I like", "it is only illegal if I get caught" and "because I like it, it must be good for everyone!".
Say when I work with a text of aristotele, writing secondary literature about him, citing him, do I need to ask aristotele as well?
"moral is a means to an end" - That sounds so cold and calculated, uncool.
"If a principle doesn´t serve a purpose, it is unneccessary." - Then I believe that you do not understand the concept of having principles.
Well actually he is right. Principles do serve a purpose. As Kant said, "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." When I don't see the maxim of a principle as universal law having any good for society, it doesn't make any sense in the sense of Kant. Well I'm already excited about having a detailed moral philosophy discussion, I like these and I am a little educated into morla philosophy
@everyone,
I would like to suggest the following points for consideration;
- Mappers should try and not release untested maps (testing could be either public or private).
This is again wrong, opensource principle is release early, release often. If you want others to give participative feedback in helping you constructing, you want to post a halffinished map.
- When a map is in the alpha/beta phases of testing, people should use this opportunity to test the map and make comments/suggestions - and not wait for a public release so they can freely edit the map as they see fit.
You are adhering to a very conservative idea of constructing things. Having a project, limited time, and when its finished its finished forever. This is not good. Often maps get say played for months until after a lot of experience you get a grip what can be improved. Should for example Raleigh not have released the 2D version of the foot map? Well no for him it was okay to play. Then landil came across and say, nice, but I want to improve the graphics, he did and everyone was happy. Now we play that map for months. Now I have further ideas to improve graphics, and so it goes on...
- If you feel the need to edit a map (for whatever reason), it would be considered polite to ask/consult the original author first.
If we settle on a "would be polite to" but not a "you just must do" then I agree.